‘America is back,’ Reagan declares in State of Union address 30 years ago this hour (Jan 25 1984)

1980s, U.S. Presidents


Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/84'

(Wednesday, January 25, 1984, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared in an election-year State of the Union address tonight that “America is back, standing tall,” and he sought constitutional power to trim spending and pare the federal deficit without raising taxes.